feelings and observations on writing

If a talented/dedicated writer can distance themselves (enough)

from the reader's mind, without (completely) losing touch,

then (i believe) mountains can move through their words.

Personally,

I'm at the tug-a-war level with the whole thing.

Internal arguments disrupt my mechanism.

I haven't mastered the tools at my disposal,

so my writing lacks consistency.

Sometimes,

I write from the gut, and it's beautiful.

Other times,

I analyze the fun out of it,

and it's fascinating.

Most of the time,

I get spun around with what other people might think,

and I end up with abortions drowning in diarrhea-sauce.

Anyway.

It always feels the best when I write to please myself,

when I work hard to reach my own definition of good writing.

-even if the reader flushes it without digging into the angles.

Here's my take on the reader making it their own,

and the writer's place in the mix:

Whatever a writer goes through,

to get the right words in an interesting order,

is of little (if any)

importance to the reader.

When a reader reads a writer's work, it belongs to that reader,

it becomes a part of their world.

A writer is not responsible for the impact his/her words

have on the reader.

-unless that writer is damn good,

then the impact is a premeditated laser beam,

then it becomes "telepathy"

(read On Writing by Stephen King)

But in the end,

all that matters to most writers

is writing something worth being read.

And all that matters to most readers

is reading something worth being read.

So,

the real goal is to write something with substance.

However that is accomplished, is up to the writer.

It is best to leave the feelings of the reader up to them...

difficult? -Absolutely!

But there is madness in trying to please everyone,

because it is impossible.

There are no easy formulas to good writing.

Even the words I'm writing here

are merely the ramblings of a man grasping for answers...

right when I think I got it all figured out,

it changes on me,

and I have to adapt or fall behind.

Everything worth Anything

takes hard work and dedication.

Our feelings and observations on writing are laughed at

by the gods and muses of this universe.

Most of this is a runaround exercise in shadowboxing.

A good writer could have said more,

with much less...

Much,

Much less.

~jw~

© Jesse Nathanael Wall